What is Component Development?

Component development deals with specifications. It basically involves plug and play architecture. Component development is a framework for distributed development of applications, which facilitates any software application with easy shipping and up gradation.

Description of Component Development

Component development technology is used on Microsoft platforms. The complete Windows architecture is developed on the basis of Microsoft component object model. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is also one of the extensively used component development technologies. Being a specification, component development is independent of the development languages. C++, VC++, Java are some of the most popular environments used for component development.